Category: benchmarks

  • Sugar: It’s Not Good For You

    Warmup Double Under Practice Skill Mobility WOD “Annie”  50-40-30-20 and 10 rep rounds of: Double-unders, Sit-ups. I struggled big time with Double Unders today — 13:46 was my time, which is over 1m more than last time. Some days you have it, some days you don’t. It happens – time to move on! Make sure…

  • Weekend of Busy

    I have been beyond busy this weekend — it started Friday evening with Scott and I heading over to a Happy Hour to say goodbye to one of his co-workers. It was a good time and I got to hang with people that I don’t see very often and dinner was paid for — Bonus!…

  • Yes, We are Winning!

    Yesterday was such a fun and inspiring day for me. The support and love around me while we ran the Scope it Out 5K to honor Scotty’s battle and victory was just what was needed and add to it, that Scotty ran the race made it PERFECT. Our team managed to raise $5500 for the…

  • CrossFit: Helen

    I’m very sleepy this morning — I did not sleep well and woke up a bit worse for wear. For a brief moment I considered going back to sleep but nope, not gonna happen. I got up and got my butt in gear — I had such a nice weekend – hard to go back…

  • Monday is the time for Annie

    Yeah thats me doing 12.3 crossfit open – 75# Push Press. Pretty cool pic I think — and the photographer is pretty good too considering it’s Scotty. He’s been totally getting into photography and loves to come in on Saturday mornings to take some shots. I like to refer to him as my personal photographer……

  • Don’t Let the Alarm Win!

    This morning was tough. I was prepared to not go – I’m going to switch up my workouts a bit and add in some yoga and running. My body is sore and hasn’t had time to really recover properly. So, im am considering dropping to 3-4 workouts a week and add in more stretching. I…

  • Crossfit is a workout for your mind & your body

    As we were doing some handstands as our skill work, my friend Liz said oh I am not good at those. I told her that it was all in her head and change the way she thinks of it –she is good at it, she’s up for the challenge. It goes along with what Tony…

  • CrossFit: A Breakthrough Happens When You Least Expect It

    The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time. – Joe Girard I had a huge breakthrough today that I needed so badly. I finally can say that I did kipping pull ups – no band! Full on Kipping Pull Ups. Something did just click…

  • Feb 4: World Cancer Day

    It’s Friday and it’s my birthday weekend. Hard to believe it’s February already and my birthday is here again.  And tomorrow it’s World Cancer Day — What a great way to kick off the weekend. World Cancer Day is this Saturday, 4 February 2012. It is the occassion to unite the world in the fight against the…

  • Annie — Annie – CrossFit Girl

    Workout today was Annie — I’m in meetings all day so don’t have much time to post today. Warmupx2 33lb bar 10 Deadlifts 10 Power Cleans 10 OHS 10 Good Mornings –2x 5 wall ball shots 10 Jump Ropes 5 Knees to Elbow Skill  Double Under WOD Annie 50-40-30-20 and 10 rep rounds of: Double-unders,…